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Pink Villa
3 days ago
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- Pink Villa
Ahn Hyo Seop meets Lee Min Ho as fiction becomes reality in Omniscient Reader: The Prophet, check out new stills of Jisoo, Chae Soo Bin
The highly anticipated webtoon-based movie Omniscient Reader: The Prophet is set to hit the South Korean theaters in a month. Recently, the film's producers unveiled new stills on June 25, giving fans a glimpse into the apocalyptic plot. The photos feature the main cast in intense poses as they prepare to battle against monsters and ruthless villains. The brave individuals team up to take on the big responsibility of saving humanity. Omniscient Reader: The Prophet spoiler stills Based on the bestselling web novel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by Sing Shong, the film promises to deliver stunning action sequences and epic fantasy elements. The newly released spoiler stills of Omniscient Reader: The Prophet feature Lee Min Ho, Ahn Hyo Seop, BLACKPINK's Jisoo, Chae Soo Bin, Nana, Shin Seung Ho and child actor Kwon Eun Seong. As a web novel's apocalyptic world comes to life, its main character, Yoo Jung Hyuk (Lee Min Ho) picks up his sword to slash the enemies of mankind. Kim Dok Ja (Ahn Hyo Seop), the only one aware of how the novel's story unfolds, looks determined to go to any lengths to use his knowledge and expertise to kill the evil creatures. Scratch marks on his and Lee Hyeon Seong's (Shin Seung Ho) faces indicate an intense fight for survival. The latter looks traumatized due to some unwanted happenings as little Lee Gil Yeong (Kwon Eun Seong) tries to comfort him. Jung Hui Won (Nana) looks exhausted from thrilling bouts, but still stands strong, shielding herself with knives. Yoo Sang A (Chae Soo Bin) stares at something intently, probably in shock or disbelief. Lee Ji Hye (BLACKPINK's Jisoo) appears lost in thought, standing in a school uniform with her survival weapon gripped firmly in her hand. The 1-hour 56-minute movie will hit theaters on July 23, 2025. Its posters and trailer launch heightened the buzz surrounding the upcoming big-budget project. With a reported budget of 21 million USD and a runtime of 117 minutes, the fantasy thriller is expected to be a blockbuster hit this summer.
Forbes
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYAFF 2025 Lineup Features More Than A Dozen Korean Films
Lee Min-ho stars in 'Omniscient Reader: The Prophet,' which airs at NYAFF on July 26. The New York Asian Film Festival and Film at Lincoln Center has published the full list of films that make up its 24th edition. NYAFF 2025 will run from July 11 to 27 across four New York City venues and champions the idea of Cinema as Disruption. 'This completes our most ambitious program ever,' says Samuel Jamier, NYAFF Executive Director. 'Eight breakthrough filmmakers competing for Uncaged, plus sidebars that reimagine what Asian cinema can be. This full-circle moment reminds us why NYAFF exists: to support bold artists before the world fully recognizes them—and to celebrate how far they've come.' This year's festival opens with one of its Korean selections, the world premiere of Informant, a Korean action-comedy that sets the tone for the lineup. Director Kim Seok will attend the premiere alongside actor Heo Sung-tae, known for his multiple appearances in films and dramas, including his memorable role in Squid Game. The Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition celebrates visionary filmmakers who challenge cinematic conventions. This year's Uncaged Award nominees include one Korean film, Time To Be Strong by Namkoong Sun, which won the Jeonju Grand Prize in 2024. The festival will also include North Korean Cool, an action-focused sidebar on how North Korean characters have become slick operatives, tragic heroes, and sharp-edged mirrors of South Korean fears, fantasies, and politics. 'The Informant," starring Her Sung-tae will open the festival, The Korean films airing at the festival include several premieres as well as special screenings of some noteworthy older films that exemplify this year's theme of Cinema as Disruption. The selection includes Commitment, directed by Park Hong-soo (2013), Forbidden Fairytales, directed by Lee Jong-seok (2024), Fragment, directed by Kim Sung-yoon (2024), The Front Line, directed by Jang Hoon (2011), A Girl With Closed Eyes, directed by Chun Sun-young (2024), Hear Me: Our Summer, directed by Jo Seon-ho (2024), Hidden Face, directed by Kim Dae-woo ( 2024), Horoomon, directed by Lee Il-ha (2025) Informant (Opening Night Film) directed by Kim Seok (2024), Method Acting, directed by Lee Ki-hyuk (2024), The Old Woman With The Knife, directed by Min Kyu-dong (2024), Omniscient Reader: The Prophet, directed by Kim Byong-woo (2025), The Secret House, directed by Park Sang-min (2025), Somebody, directed by Lee Jung-chan, Kim Yeo-jung (2024), The Suspect, directed by Won Shin-yun (2013), Swing Kids, directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol (2018) and Time To Be Strong, directed by Namkoong Sun (2024). NYAFF 2025 also features a selection of cinematic shorts by South Korean directors. The New York Asian Film Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the exhibition and appreciation of Asian film culture in all its forms, with year-round festivals and programs, and a view to building bridges between Asia and America.
Pink Villa
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
PICS: Lee Min Ho celebrates 38th birthday with vanilla cake, bouquet and gifts from fans, wishes them happiness
Actor Lee Min Ho is celebrating his 38th birthday today, on June 22, and has received innumerable wishes from fans and brands he collaborates with. He took to his Instagram to share moments from his celebration and thank fans for the overwhelming love they bestowed upon him on his special day and throughout his acting career. His birthday was all about delicious cake, colourful decor, pretty flowers and heart melting smiles. Lee Min Ho shares 38th birthday photos The Legend of the Blue Sea fame Lee Min Ho took to his Instagram to showcase the thoughtful gifts he received from his fans. It included handmade cards, photo frame decors, beautiful flower bouquets, balloons and other goody bag-filled items. There was barely any space left in the room where he posed with the presents and with a cake in hand. The vanilla cake looked stunning, but you know what was even more gorgeous? Lee Min Ho's smile. He sported a simple black t-shirt and grey pants and looked really happy. He wrote a sweet message for his fans as he shared the pictures. The actor captioned the post as, "I am grateful for the immense love [of fans] that allows me to exist today, and I hope you are as happy as I am." Among the items in the room, his character posters from his upcoming movie, also found a place. The actor is set to star in the biggest-budget Korean movie of 2025 so far– Omniscient Reader: The Prophet. In the gripping movie, the lines between fiction and reality get blurred as the dystopian world of a novel gets to life. Lee Min Ho takes on the role of the main character of the novel, Yoo Jung Hyeok. He has the superpower of getting back to life from death. He and his fellow teammates, including characters played by Ahn Hyo Seop, BLACKPINK's Jisoo, Chae Soo Bin, Nana, and Shin Seung Ho, and child actor Kwon Eun Seong will take on monsters to save humanity. The 1-hour 56-minute movie will hit South Korean theaters on July 23, 2025.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How ‘Pachinko' Star Minha Kim Approached Season 2's Cliffhanger: 'That's When Sunja Finally Realized That She's Tired'
Apple TV+'s Pachinko Season 2 premiered just under 10 months ago, but many of the most emotional and devastating scenes are still fresh for actress Minha Kim, who portrays anchor character Sunja. Kim's main character, a woman and mother who connects three generations of her family across the sweeping series based on Min Jin Lee's book, endures many a hardship. What might be freshest in the audience's — especially those who have read the book — mind is the shocking moments in the finale when Sunja's oldest son Noa (Kang Tae Ju) visits her one last time out of the blue before running away to start a new life for himself. He has just come to realize who his real father is — Koh Hansu (Lee Min-ho) — while he has grown up believing that Isak (Steve Sanghyun Noh) is his biological father. This drives Noa to an extreme reaction, virtually disappearing into thin air where even his actual father — who has all sorts of connections and eyes on people — cannot find him. More from Deadline 'Pachinko' Creator Soo Hugh Talks 'Exponentially Increased' Stakes Of Season 2 'Pachinko' Showrunner Soo Hugh Delves Into Noa's Emotional Story & The Intensity Of Filming The 'Jalapeno' Scenes 'Dying For Sex' Co-Creator Kim Rosenstock On Bringing People "A Sense Of Fulfillment, Joy & Happiness" Through Kinks And Body Positivity 'When he left and he disappeared, [it] just [broke] my heart,' Kim told Deadline. 'That's when Sunja finally realized that she's tired. She cannot do anything. All the hope and lies she has carried on for her whole life [have] disappeared. That's how big he was to Sunja.' In the below interview, Kim unpacked how she bridged the gap between seasons for her central character, her approach to portraying challenging motherhood moments and her hopes for a Season 3 to complete the story of her matriarch. DEADLINE: Minha Kim: When I started the second season, the first thing I [wanted] to focus on was that time has passed. Seven years have passed since the first season. So I had to melt those years, and the whole time periods, into the new version of Sunja. I had to imagine how she would have worked, how she would have raised her children, how she would have built the relationship with Kyung-hee (Jung Eun-chae), and how she missed Yangjin (Inji Joeng), and how she dealt with the emotions with Hansu (Lee Min-ho), and all those kinds of things, I had to build he layers of those years. I remember, I just focused really hard on that, but I thought that it should be very subtle, because she was 30 years old [at the] start of second season. She's not like, old, old. I thought she would have all those years in her body language and in her eyes. I wrote a diary for Sunja as I prepared for the second season. Honestly, I started it just for fun, but it helped me a lot. I focused on that, and of course, again, a lot of relationships, because especially for the second season, a lot of relationships got very vivid compared to the first season. So there's Hansu Isak, Kyung-hee and Yangjin, and especially with the children, I had to specifically separate all these relationships and how I felt differently with the characters. After I sorted out all those kind of things, all the other situations flowed naturally, and all the other staff and actors and actresses helped me in building the layers. DEADLINE: KIM: Whenever I [think back on] the scene where Isak came back and he died, it's just so heartbreaking, because for seven whole years, Sunja would have a very big hope that Isak would come back and he would be alive. But when he comes back, he was almost a deead person and but even at that moment, she had a hope that she could save him, and she truly believed that Sunja and the children need Isak, but eventually, when it comes out that Isak has no hope. I remember the scene I, Sunja keep touching him, when he was dying. It was because I just tried to deliver my warmth to him so I could make him alive just for a second. It was her hope. She just wanted him to be alive just for a second, because Sunja truly believed that Isak was the one who saved her. But after he died, no matter what, she had to move on, right? She had to save the family. She kind of naturally felt that if she collapsed, if she fell down, the whole family [would] fall down. So that's why she went to the backyard and cried in a very secret way. She couldn't tell the family that she had collapsed. And yet she had to move on, and she had to carry the family, and at the funeral, she had to leave the body because of the war. That was a very devastating moment, but still, she had to move on to leave. The war happened, and Hansu helped the family to move to the rural area, to leave. All the the situations that she's facing, no matter what, she has to move on, no matter, what she had to lay more hope. One of the bravest things about her is that she never gave up the hope That's why I always say that she's very bright and she's very smart and very brave. She had to move on in order to protect their children and family. I felt the more shocking it is, Sunja has a very deep mood to stabilize it. DEADLINE: KIM: It was very complicated. Whenever I had a scene with Hansu, it was so complicated that I couldn't explain, I couldn't decide which vocabulary to use. But I think [those were] the right emotions that I had to get. Because right before the kite scene, I told Hansu that, 'No, you cannot be that close to our children. Just stay away from them.' But right after, I see my children laughing that hard, and they're so joyful. To be honest, just for a second, I imagined, 'What if Hansu was my husband? What if Hansu and I had a very good relationship and raised the children?' Would that be this happy? At that moment, the first thing I imagined ight after I imagined those kind of things, was to [be] guilty. I felt, 'Oh, my God, wake up. What am I thinking?' Isak is my husband. I should not think of this, but while I'm looking at my children being so happy, and they like Hansu so much, [it] made me happy too. Flying the kite that kind of open sky, I could feel a bit of freedom while I'm looking at the kite. So a lot of lot of emotions had to come in the very same time, while I was shooting that scene, and it was my last day [on set]. DEADLINE: KIM: So eventually,[we] had four actors playing [her sons]. So from the first episode until four, the young Mozasu and Noa, they really, really felt like my children. They're so super, super cute. It's so adorable. I naturally fell in love with that. We shot a lot of scenes in Toronto, so I had a lot of responsibilities to protect them. I [didn't] want them to be hurt, I [didn't] want them to be exhausted. Every day I asked them, 'Did you have lunch? Did you have dinner? What kind of lunch did you have?' When they were very young, it was, I hate to say this, but easier to raise them, because they were babies. All [Sunja] had to be aware of was not to reveal the secret with Hansu, so that was [her] only goal and only challenge that I had to carry on, which was very, very hard. After Noa had grown up, the scene where Noa told [his mother] that he no longer wants to [go to] college, that was the hardest scene I shot for the second season, because in real life, as Minha, I've never raised kids before, so it was very hard for me to persuade him, like, 'Should I be angry at him? or should I be calm, or should I listen to him? Or…' I couldn't decide what to do. At that scene, I think it was episode six. Sang-il [Lee] and I had to discuss it a lot. I asked him 'How do you raise kids? In this situation what would you do?' He had no answer. There's no [one] answer for raising kids. Especially with Noa, I had a very big burden in my mind. I'm always, always being very [cautious]. I had a fear with him as well. Mozasu is so lovely and he has a lot of freedom in himself. [Sunja] had a belief in him that, because he's from Isak and Sunja, [she] instantly believed that Mozasu had the blood of Isak, so he could be very like, cheerful and in school he has possibilities to work in Pachinko in a very efficient position. [She] worried about him, but at the same time [she] doesn't worry about him. It was very different with Noa and Mozasu. Mozasu, I just let him do whatever he wants. Noa, I had a very big burden in me. DEADLINE: KIM: Yes, it was very weird emotions that I had for the very first time in my life. First of all, [Sunja] was very, very proud of him, very proud of him. Have you ever had a feeling of, if you are very happy, you have happy tears? But it's not just about happiness, not sadness. [Sunja's] very proud and worried about him, and this is the thing that he's been working very hard [for], and [she's] been working very hard [for], and it's just happened in front of [her] eyes. And now [they] had to be a part. This is the things that [she's] been waiting for, and he is portraying [her] dream as well. It touched me a lot. I have two siblings in my real life, and my first one had to study abroad when she was 16. So my parents cried a lot in the airport. I think [those] was the same emotions. [Sunja is] thankful to Noa, and at the same time, [she] feels so sorry for him. He's so grown up and now he's trying to survive, and he's trying to move on his [in] life without [Sunja]. All those kind of complicated emotions came in that scene, and when I hugged him, I just couldn't let him go like with this hug. I wished I could deliver whole my mind and my prayers to him. I was hugging so hard, and I didn't want to show him my tears. That's why I just couldn't look at him, look in his eyes. DEADLINE: KIM: First of all, at that moment when [she] finally realized that Noah had realized Noah that his father is Hansu — I talked about this scene with Soo [Hugh] a lot. Honestly, Sunja had been always, every moment, every second, she'd been alert about Noa knowing the secret. It was the very first thing that she had to really hide. And she's always worried about, 'What if Noah knows it? What if? What if?' All of a sudden she realized that, 'Oh, my god, shit, this really did happen. All the things I really did not want to be happen, just happened.' So it's not just that she's been preparing for the situation, but she's always been thinking of that. When she ran out of the house and searched for him for a very long time, and she had a conversation with Hansu that 'It's our fault.' She's just been going crazy. She loses her rational mind. She's going insane. It was a very devastating scene, very difficult, very emotional because [she] couldn't think properly, [Her] brain has just stopped. That's why [she] need[s] Hansu. But ironically, at that conversation, audiences see that, 'Ah, Sunja and Hansu are being parents. It was very weird and a very complicated scene and emotions that I felt. Because the last episode ended with Noah's face, I hope, as an audience member as well, we could continue the story with Noa and how Sunja and Hansu could have survived after Noa has disappeared, and how they solve the problem and how it's connected with the novel. I'm crossing my fingers for continuing the story with a third season. RELATED: Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series
Time of India
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Omniscient Reader': Lee Min Ho returns to the big screen — To hit theaters on July 23, 2025
Lee Min Ho is making a much-anticipated return to the big screen after nearly a decade with Omniscient Reader , one of the most buzzed-about Korean films of 2025. But he's not coming alone—joining him is Ahn Hyo Seop , star of A Business Proposal, who makes his film debut in this visually stunning action-fantasy adaptation. While the movie boasts an impressive ensemble cast, fans are especially excited to see two K-drama powerhouses—Lee Min Ho and Ahn Hyo Seop—share the screen for the first time. According to Allkpop , Omniscient Reader is officially set to release in South Korean cinemas on July 23, 2025. Although a release date for India has not yet been confirmed, Lee Min Ho's massive fan base in the country makes a theatrical release there highly likely. A Star-Studded Lineup and a Beloved Webtoon The film also features an ensemble of popular stars including Chae Soo Bin (When the Phone Rings), Shin Seung Ho (Alchemy of Souls), Nana (Mask Girl), Jisoo (Snowdrop, BLACKPINK), and Kwon Eun Seong (Pachinko), alongside Ahn Hyo Seop. Omniscient Reader is based on the widely popular webtoon of the same name by Sing Shong. The story follows Kim Dokja (played by Ahn Hyo Seop), a seemingly ordinary office worker whose life takes an extraordinary turn when the plot of his favorite web novel, Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World, begins to unfold in reality. To his shock, Dokja finds himself face to face with Yoo Joonghyuk (Lee Min Ho), the fictional protagonist of the story. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với mức chênh lệch giá thấp nhất IC Markets Đăng ký Undo A Clash of Worlds and a Race Against Time Joonghyuk possesses a unique ability—he returns to the beginning of the apocalypse every time he dies, giving him a seemingly infinite number of chances to survive. Dokja, on the other hand, holds a different power: he's the only reader who knows how the web novel ends. The two must reluctantly team up to navigate deadly scenarios and rewrite the fate of both their worlds. Along the way, they are joined by a cast of compelling characters. Chae Soo Bin plays Yoo Sangah, Dokja's adaptable and loyal colleague, while Jisoo appears as Lee Jihye, Joonghyuk's trusted companion known for her unmatched strength and combat skills. First Teaser Raises the Stakes To build anticipation, the release date was announced alongside a striking teaser trailer. The clip shows Dokja's ordinary world being consumed by Joonghyuk's apocalyptic universe, setting the stage for a thrilling convergence of fantasy and reality. Each character is introduced with their signature weapons and gear, promising high-octane action and intense survival sequences. In one of the trailer's standout moments, Dokja declares, 'We just have to clear up to the 99th scenario. With my companions, I will rewrite the ending of this story.'
